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There is definitely a "mystique" to ranching. It is also very dangerous work. Thrown by horses, gored by bulls (and cows!), hurt on equipment. It's a hard way to make a living, and it's more a life-style than an occupation. Most ranchers wouldn't want to do anything else.

Two winters ago a neighbor's wife was chopping ice out of a tank and slipped, broke her hip, and had to crawl back to the house in a helluva sub-zero blizzard. Luckily it was only two miles and she was (is) a tough old buzzard.